The evidence on the potential for agricultural interventions to contribute to improved nutrition has grown considerably over the past decade.
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Individual farmer investments have the potential to fill the gap in public investments and be more cost-effective than large-scale irrigation. However, this development primarily occurs outside of formal systems.
Farmers, entrepreneurs, and businesses are already leading the way by expanding irrigation in response to climate variability and the growing demand for vegetables and fruit through supplemental and dry-season irrigated production.
The FAO-IFPRI study, focuses on the use of tractors because they are among the most versatile farm mechanization tools and are universal power sources for all other driven implements and equipment in agriculture, with significant potential to repl
The mNutrition initiative is a five-year global programme supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), organised and supported by Groupe Spéciale Mobile Association (GSMA), and implemented by in-country mobile network o
This paper reviews FSP’s achievements from 2013 to 2018 and discusses some of the key lessons learned while also documenting the project’s vast range of publications, presentations, policy briefs, and other outputs.
A4NH 2016 annual report
In its 5th year of Phase I, A4NH has validated its core areas of research, taking many to scale while also broadening its Phase II portfolio
This document presents a summary of a typology study done using quantitative statistical methods (discussed below) applied to micro data from the Tanzania Africa RISING Baseline Evaluation Survey (TARBES) (conducted in 2014) and secondary data on
This report presents overall summaries and cross-tabulations, and empirical means-difference tests across household type, location, wealth, and gender of head, for data that cover 810 households in Africa RISING areas in northern and north-central
The overall purpose of this study is to develop a country‐specific capacity‐strengthening strategy to meet the strategic analysis and knowledge management objectives of the country CAADP process.
This research report highlights findings from a set of studies applied economists have undertaken on the impact that improved banana cultivars and management practices have had on farmers in the Lake Victoria region of Tanzania and Uganda.
This report focuses on demand-side constraints on agricultural growth and their implications for three broad alternative agricultural development strategies: promoting traditional exports, developing nontraditional exports, and increasing food sta
Since 1986, Tanzania, like many other countries, has experienced a remarkable political and economic transition.
In 1998 IFPRI and its collaborators in Africa established two regional research networks, one for East Africa and one for West Africa.